The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-27
NEW ENs1AND,s CRACK HUNTER.
Racins Up and Down . Mountain All Might
to Keep from Freezing.

to Keep from Freezing.
BETHLEHEM, NH, Nov. 22.-Allen Thomp-
son Of this place Is ono Of the remarkable char
acters OF northern New England. He Is now rs
years old, and during his career as hunter.
trapper, surveyor. and guide he has acquired
Q familiarity with the White Mountains pos
sessed by no other man. II have lived three
days on q red squirrel" he says. While In the
wilderness he never carried a blanket, he says,
but at nightfall would lie down on a bed Of
boughs wherever he CHANGED to be, with his
feet to the fire and his face!to the ground. and
many q time on awaking In the morning he
would find himself covered with five or six
inches Of snow. He is credited with having
killed In the year 1910, ia foxes. SO deer. GO
sables, and 7 bears. One year he had 1.10O
sable traps on Q single line forty miles long,
and q weeks life In the wilderness was required
for him to traverse the line. attend to the traps.
and return home Twelve years ago he cap
tured the last wolf seen among the mountains.
1t tipped the steelyards at "a pounds.
My real life as Q hunter" he said. began In
my seventeenth year. when I ran away from
homo and Joined the Mohawk Indians: Ispent
years Of my life. came to Bethlehem in 1851.
H. Thiss 9 essi Sa tR %ss sr tSsn he enly q i 1ass s %Rifdsaness,
made surveys; yeTy oitsn: whom " been Of
i Rsi s4as e xss: N Vel FIT I'll IF fu ses. WHIT It n E2a}s IL Z
tssr sh eie elS sat al Hn to s e @y Gotten TSsn Pf9s xeSia f iaS
the &c. cott tpao on no a dry lIed egss pour 20 { some 9 = powder . on
had my eyebrows burnt of more than once by
"Ih 1s ;1 I'm II 1.-THE the woods ,oed I { never use a com.
s se@p %sys Y oavs VII III t aoslas that 1hs P eSress .e 81 tbs
sss sf Ssa %Gss q So srsss e sn spruce Sa t ses n s4s alw slaS;
on the south. side. and third, the topmost twie
Of every uniniured hemlock tips to the east;
never get lost. Thu things I most. look ont for
to take into the woods are salt and pork. | can
most folks do. I always make "a II. It a rule to stop
eating when the Tt t taste !ust as good as
have lived for weeks at q time on partridge and
saSsisatisi seed ter, me-; Ixe Used tobacco
to go to bed at dark and get up at 8 o'clock. l
like to work two hours before anybody else Is
tired r hi Pc Z was ! 9 60. and amy my S srss Sickness i Mss 20 o &c
The tou9hest experience ! ever had was one
two dogs. It HAs was S a Damp np' and ie cold u DAY. S and
the snow was two feet deer; Early Il the morn
then ran It over to the Ammonoosuc, and then
clear over to Cherry Mountain, followed oil
a frees sR Wes as Lena osSs a | Wiz fGal sn sss t and tr mH clothes Hss
were as wet as II / had been in swimming. Ny
matches were all soaked, and I tried every way
to got q fire. but without success. l shot my
gun into some wadding, but even that wouldn't
catch fire. / sat down and soon began to get
sleepy. Knowing. that. that would never do, I
got up, end all night long ! ran up. and down
Ing. NY clothes were frozen stiff: my Fingers
were benumbed with cold, and 1 hadn't eaten a
mouthful since 4 O'Clock tho previous morning.
lowed along the track until O'clock In the a.
ternoon, whom Iovertook tho deer. Ithad been
knife I quickly. skinned the animal. and.
shouldering the hide, l trmdged on. and finally
came out at the village Of Whiteleld.",
resist the :ravages OF time, and he is a crack
shot to this day. He is a Jacksonian Demo-
ure to multiply reasons for his political belief.